HI I AM SO SORRY THIS REPLY IS A LITTLE LATE I FORGOT ABOUT RETROSPRING I HOPE YOU STILL SEE IT!!!!!
so the answer for serial code chuusen changes pretty significantly based on venue/popularity/what kind of ticket you’re going for. for example, i got an S ticket for mygo at bandori 12th using just three serial codes, but it took me ten to get an S ticket (or w/e the equivalent ‘best ticket’ is) for their zepp haneda tour stop and eleven to get one for divide/unite. in all three instances i would say i got the bare minimum ‘safe’ amount to secure the seats i wanted.
based on these factors, the answer again will vary. i’m assuming you’re not going for mygo 7th as chuusen had closed even before i got this—if you are interested in stats about how this chuusen went, someone did a questionnaire asking people how many codes they entered/if they won/etc., i can dig it up if you like, but i’m guessing it probably took 20 serial codes to secure S seats (if you weren’t going for S seats i think chances were way higher). so for the only upcoming events i can think of:
avoid note (mygo x togetoge): this is in a venue too small for just one of them, much less both. since serial codes are w BDs for this one it’ll be more expensive so it probably won’t be as high as it would be if it was CD chuusen instead but i would seriously do at least 20 but probably 30 codes, especially if you want a shot at better seats (though we don’t know seating details at this point i don’t think)
mygo x ave mujica: personally i’m probably shooting for 25 codes, but that very well may be overkill—mymuji are popular and rising, but it’s a two day live, the venue is 20k which is the biggest venue either has headlined afaik, and chuusen is before the anime which means less hype so chuusen won’t be as brutal (hopefully); i just refuse to miss out on this chance At All so i’m going hard lol. we also don’t know a lot of the details for this though (incl if serial codes can be used for both days), so this could change too

also! if you’re going to mymuji and would like help w chuusen, please message me (if you feel comfortable ofc)! i am p sure i know a number of people going and want to coordinate chuusen purchasing efforts to maximize potential winnings and make sure everyone gets a ticket who wants without having to spend a totally heinous amount all by oneself. so for anyone reading this interested please reach out!!

(also sorry if this answer sucks i may edit it later i am about to get off my break and just don’t have the time rn to do this properly but i don’t want to forget to respond fhdkdjs)

comrade you have nothing to apologize for!! thank you for sharing your thoughts/information about her radio! indeed i feel obligated to apologize for not only my tardiness but also how clearly you are far more plugged into amita than i am 😭 i see where you're coming from!! and i find it v interesting to hear her talking about the different perspective of different members of the band :o AND it really heartens me to hear how she mentions different seiyuu who she's friends with (ik how she is very close w sumipe and ofc the depths of aimi's feelings about her, but it makes me so happy to hear her talking about hiyocchi aynr and mikku and aimi mentioning gbp 2022 :') )

i genuinely cannot begin to state how thankful i am that amita came back. idk if i've said it (semi?-)publicly before but ik i've expressed to friends in private how outside of popipa (and at this point mygo and i suppose to varying degrees all the irl bands) i could not imagine a seiyuu 'loss' that would hurt more than amita graduating from aya (initially i had this typed as 'amita graduating from amita', not bc i think she and aya are identical bc i don't but like. how can there be an aya without amita?). i was devastated when she announced she was leaving, but when they said she was coming back it gave me such an overwhelming sense of joy and gratitude and contentedness that i will hold for the rest of my life. while i know it would have taken time i am sure i would have grown to love and support any potential second aya seiyuu with everything i have... but w everything in me i will eternally cherish that it never came to that point and that amita is the only aya i will ever know <3

ahahahaha... taki exists in this perfect little area where certain qualities about her (i would say most significantly feeling second best/being overlooked compared to another person) resonate w me (or more specifically me when i was much younger) on a very deep level that make me feel very emotionally engaged with her, but she is also different enough from me that i find her interesting and compelling bc i can't just imprint my own expectations/experiences onto her (will not give you all lane's half a lifetime of psychotherapy but i'll just say she has held onto anger in ways i have never been able to lol)... ik i have said this abt mygo as a whole but shiina taki was truly made in a lab to make me crazy i s2g

UWAAAAA YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY IT MADE ME TO GET THIS MESSAGE I WAS BEAMING READING IT there's SO much in here and i agree with/share p much all of these :D i won't comment on all of them so as not to be annoying (but who knows i may return to them later heehee) but i will say a few things :)
- yes!! i def agree that part of taki's growth will be her writing music for herself (or to express herself) and i love the idea of taki and tomori communicating with/to each other through their music so they can both deepen their understanding of the other :') +thinking about them writing love songs to the other... ahh,
- i look forward to taki giving tomori little gifts, and i hope tomori gives taki gifts too (thinking abt that adorable fanart from the other day w tomori+anon getting a panda out of the gacha machine and how happy taki was when tomori gave it to her :') )
- the idea of taki trying on tomori's uniform sent ME on a roller coaster of emotions... the amount of feelings in so many different directions she would have to unpack... i can def see that as a card story some day
- highlighting how tomori also wants to keep taki from experiencing pain is always important. i feel like breathing next to you did such a good job of showing how tomori's worrying about taki too
- completely agree re: taki's feelings towards her sister. i've commented on it before, but i personally HC maki as caring a lot about taki too, but the different ways that their parents treat them (again all speculation at this point still but) creates a very painful wedge between them that they can't really overcome at this point. i LOVE the idea of her connecting with tomori as being the beginning to her (re)connecting with maki/other people in her life... that potential for growth is a huge part of why i think takitomo would be so healing and positive for them both beyond simply looking at their relationship :')
- I WANT TO SEE TAKI DANCING AT KARAOKE going to extend this to her getting rly into it when she goes to concerts too
- i am so interested in seeing how taki's relationships with... well, all of ave mujica, but especially umiri, evolve. there's so much about their specific dynamic that is so weird and compelling to me, i feel like there's a lot we don't know... but also don't feel like that at the same time?? truly do not know how to describe it. i def agree that they will grow apart/perhaps have already begun doing so. looking forward to seeing how mutsumi's relationships with everyone evolve. i 100% agree that taki doesn't hate sakiko, though she might like herself to think so for tomori's sake sometimes
- imagining taki riding on the back of tomori's bike with her arms wrapped around her... :')
i commented a little more than i meant to... i just can't help myself dfhfdghdf but ty again for this, it rly made me happy after a very long hard day :D

i was planning on catching up on all the bands' music before answering this buuut that's probably not going to happen so apologies to everyone for having incredibly boomer answers lol
popipa: everything but happy happy party (jk... honestly atp hhp has become endearing to me in its own way). umm but circling has been my eternal answer but there are so many others i love so much in so many different ways... returns, light delight, mae ni susume, 337, hello wink, setsunai sandglass, hashikimi, initial, BOF, hoshi no yakusoku... i enjoyed seishun TBC a lot as a whole but five letters is my fave i think... basically they are all good :)
afterglow: YOLO, sensenfukoku, and my favorite debut song (well til mayoiuta now)/the reason taki fell in love w them (in my hc): that is how i roll
pasupare: mou ichido luminous and wakuwaku meets trip. but also: shuwa
roselia: R, neo-aspect, avant-garde history, determination symphony, whatever song i most recently heard live gdfhgdh
harohapi: wacha mocha pettan koushinkyoku... sorry this answer is so underwhelming and boring fhgdhghd
morfonica: i rly need to listen to their discography more to get a clearer idea of this bc i enjoy a lot of their stuff but chikai no wingbeat goes so crazy live that's what i will go with in this moment
RAS: beautiful birthday, unstoppable, maybe declaration? i have been a little bored w/disinterested in RAS recently unfortunately but all their songs are perfect live so. also shouts out to gekidou cover
mygo: is all of them an acceptable answer (but umm. genuinely i struggle w this bc i adore all their songs, i default to tanebi but i don't think i have any actual conviction in loving that more than the others gfhdfhhd, i also particularly love otoichie, silhouette dance, mayoiuta, and kokyuu... and utakotoba... and all of them... (also again i am obligated to shout out moudoku ga osou ESP the live version where it follows straight from henceforth bc that makes me vibrate at the speed of sound))
ave mujica: prooobably kamisama baka or black birthday?? but i'm not sure, again they are all good live which is a huge factor in my love of a song... i'm excited to see/hear what's to come from them
vtubers: uhh their song is cute ig

HOW DID I MISS THIS MESSAGE??

i’m really not certain but i’m so excited to see!! while i’m sure her feelings about tomori will be implicated (how could they not be?) i don’t think her love for her will be the (direct) focus or anything; i think a lot of it will probably be her feelings of inadequacy/failure wrt mygo falling apart (and how she contributed to/exacerbated things), and i can v easily see her feelings towards sakiko (hating her for breaking up crychic+making tomori upset but also admiring her for how she was able to accommodate the members of crychic incl taki+then ofc comparing herself negatively to that) coming up, esp since i think those will pop up more in animuji. i really hope we get a little more insight into her past/home life here too, whether directly or not

i might come back to this tomorrow bc my brain turned off i feel like i am missing/forgetting things i simply could not believe i had not seen/processed this and had to get on responding 😭😭😭

i’ve been sitting on this message for a couple of weeks now because i really wasn’t sure what to do with it. honestly, i’m still not sure if answering it is the way to go because i don’t want to inspire panic and/or unfounded speculation, but i wanted to respond to it, especially because i’ve been thinking about it a lot.

after receiving this message and looking into things, for reasons both mentioned in this question as well as others, i do think that, at the very least, yuniko-sensei’s involvement w avemygo/bandori moving forward will be p different from what it has been thus far. i am not exaggerating when i say that the feelings i felt upon this realization were of the same intensity i had when amita announced her retirement, save for with a deep layer of anger (not directed towards her). it’s not just that yuniko-sensei put her everything into it’s mygo and created such a deeply affecting and genuine masterwork; it’s that she’s always been an essential part of bandori to me (and so many others). i knew and enjoyed popipa before s1, but watching that (along w the lives and getsubushi tv lol) is what really made me fall in love with them and bandori as a whole. yuniko-sensei was at the helm then too. i can’t even imagine bandori without her. i don’t want to.

those feelings are still largely in tact. i don’t know why she is/seems to be leaving when she seems to care so much, and we probably never will, at least not entirely. my gut instinct (and inspiration for my anger) was that b*shi screwed her over somehow, and i definitely do not want to be an apologist for them or rule that out entirely. that being said, if there’s one thing b*shi likes to do, it’s to stick with the same collaborators/creative talents, and based on things she said around the finale, it seems like this was in the works for a while, so i don’t think this is a decision that was made fairly recently (not that that would mean she couldn’t have been mistreated still).

as far as looking to the future, i would be lying if i said this possibility/probability didn’t give me great pause. part of me has wondered if i could even enjoy things moving forward. however, as remarkable and important as yuniko-sensei and her contributions have been, she is still only one member of the team, all of whom were firing on all cylinders for it’s mygo (and avemygo in general). assuming the rest of the creative team remains largely the same, i will be cautiously optimistic for what we have coming up. i get the sense that yuniko-sensei is very proud of mygo, ave mujica, and her entire team’s efforts; i want to keep supporting them as a way to honor all the love and hard work that’s been put into everything thus far from both her and everyone else who is a part of making something so special.

for me them being some level of abusive/negligent is so patently clear to me that i forget it isn’t actually canon orz. regardless, i think throughout taki’s childhood that she, her thoughts, and her feelings were often overlooked ignored and disregarded especially when compared to maki (though i imagine that the golden child upbringing that i HC for maki did not do her any favors either); someone does not feel as worthless about themself as she does (esp at her age) if they have living and affirming parents. i don’t want to speculate on any darker specifics in fear of seeming sensationalizing, but as others have pointed out, her quickness to anger and physical aggression are very concerning to me in terms of what she might have seen/experienced :/

that isn’t really answering your question, so to do so more properly: i don’t think they’re dead or anything, at least not both of them; for reasons i can’t fully articulate, i do feel like she is actively/currently experiencing this kind of familial marginalization. i do think they are very emotionally and/or physically distant (at least one of them), and their divestment from her life one way or another is reflected on how they are a non-presence in her life. but i’m not certain on many if any of the details. whatever the case may be, i think family life has been a very painful space for taki, it breaks my heart :(

thank you for sending a pic bc i've been meaning to grab one myself and am just. perpetually lazy orz but the neatness always surprises me too!! i share that same bias probably also due to fanwork but also my own headcanoning of her as having ADHD lol. besides that what strikes me the most is probably its almost complete lack of personality :/ like besides the music stuff on her desk (and the panda nameplate on her door ofc) this room could belong to anyone... it's almost clinical in its standardness :(

and the "make your dreams happen" frame... it could again just be standard room dressings i am fully aware this could be me reading too much into things/projecting and maybe it's just her trying to encourage herself neutrally but. like part of me wonders if it's a way to kind of put pressure on her (whether from her parents or herself), like "if you don't achieve what you want it's because you didn't try hard enough," a feeling kind of supported by her lockscreen (which says "what will you do today?" w a panda holding a balloon for those not Insane about taki lol) :/ maybe we will get some more perspective as we learn more about her

ooo that’s a good idea, i think i’ll give it a shot!! it’ll probably be short at first bc i’m bad at remembering these things AND pulling songs i want them to sound like off the top of my head, PLUS i’ve been listening to a lot of new (to me) jpn bands and discovering new things all the time, so it’ll likely (or at least hopefully!) expand a lot over time! also some things i throw on there at first might not really be things i necessarily want mygo to sound like but are rather songs w guitar dynamics i really like bc i rly want mygo to have a nuanced/layered guitar sound ghdkdjdk but i’ll share it once i get it up (going to get it started in just a second) though! tysm for the suggestion, i’m happy that you might want to check out the links i post :’)